Abstract: A business application integrates a company's internal business systems with an e-commerce web site, so that company personnel can manage their business with a business application that seamlessly exports relevant, up-to-date data to a web site designed to interact with customers across the Web. The business application provides business functions for manipulating merchandising data stored in a merchandising database. In addition, to accommodate an intermittent connection to the Internet or otherwise to the web hosting server, the business application supports the generation of a replica, from the merchandising database, that can be exported to a web hosting server. A web application executing at the web hosting server generates web pages based on merchandising data stored in the partial replica. The customer can provide feedback, possibly representing purchase orders or customer information changes, for example, that can be automatically entered into the company's business system.

Abstract: An apparatus for facilitating the application and removal of gloves. The apparatus comprises a vacuum system wherein a vacuum pump evacuates air from a vacuum chamber, such that a glove positioned over an opening into the vacuum chamber is inflated. The glove is positioned over the opening by a stiffening ring attached to the wrist portion of the glove which has a diameter larger than the diameter of the opening. The apparatus includes a device for controlling the vacuum pump operation speed such that the amount of vacuum pressure used and the amount of glove inflation obtained may be adjusted to both higher and lower settings. Thus, the apparatus is particularly adapted for use in various geographical locations and elevations. The device is also ambidextrous in its use such that right and left hands can be gloved by the same device. One handed application is facilitated by an electrical foot switch operating the vacuum pump.